Thank you Charles for appreciating. Milburga --- On Sun, 3/20/11, Charles Male <[email protected]> wrote: From: Charles Male <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] French - The Language and it's potential Value to Uganda To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, March 20, 2011, 7:29 PM Maureen, thanks for forwarding this piece. I totally agree with Milburga that Uganda has to take French language education very seriously. Uganda is well positioned within the east african region -- we (used to) have a better command of English than any other country. We also have great opportunities to the North of us -- Arabic, and to the east and south - great kishwahili! If only we could encourage French, Arabic and Kiswhahili at our schools, our youth would have a competitive advantage over their counterparts in the region/whole of Africa. The importance of being able to function in many languages was best put by Canadian Astronaut Julie Payette during her address at my graduating ceremony in 1999. Of the more than 5000 applicants to the Canadian Space Agency for the Astronaut selection program, Julie emerged among the four victorious candidates -- according to her, not because she had the best degree -- she only had a Master's degree then while thousands of applicants had Doctorates but because she was well prepared...she spoke her native French, English, Spanish, Italian, Russian and German. If our youth in West Nile could speak English, French, Arabic and Kishwahili (in addition to our local languages), they would stand a better chance of facing the challenges that lie ahead of them. Milburga, thanks for the commentary! Charles On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Ayikoru <[email protected]> wrote: Dear All, Here is an opinion about the above subject from one of your own, you may find it useful- click on this link: http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/-/689364/1128274/-/13c31tsz/-/index.html Cheers, Maureen Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. _______________________________________________ -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. _______________________________________________
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